Yuri Navi ran its third yuri manga ranking poll recently & YagaKimi got 1st for the third consecutive time with 1,816 votes, beating out 2nd place (Citrus) by 1,314 votes. The poll was not available for overseas fans this time around. In total, there were about 3,300 votes this year while last year it was around 1,900 votes. So yes, it was a complete landslide with YagaKimi took more than half the total votes. Direct sauce to 10th-1st places here.
Another event that is happening only for Japanese fans: Trifle Entertainment, who is responsible for producing YagaKimi's stage play, announced a crowdfunding project last week called YagaKimi Stage's Aquarium Date Project where they will film the actresses who played Touko and Yuu (it is noted that they won't be dressing up or playing the roles of Touko and Yuu in this shoot) hanging out at the aquarium where the YagaKimi date was based on (yes, it's a real location which has become a rather famous pilgrimage spot for YagaKimi fans in Japan). For those who don't know, the stage play was 2-hour long, covering the story from the beginning to the student council's play. Due to time restraint, it was basically a diet version of the story and a lot of contents were cut out, including the iconic aquarium date scene from ch 24. Trifle producer expressed that they wanted to include the aquarium date somehow, so they decided to create this special bonus that will be included in the stage play BD & DVD (scheduled to be released some time around the end of Oct and there will be screening events to commemorate the release on Nov 17th and 24th). The cost of renting the venue for the shoot is 2 million yen (~$18.9k) and the crowdfunding's goal is to raise 2 million yen to help cover that cost and they stated that if the funds exceed the goal, they will be used to help with covering production costs for the shoot, the screening events, the BD/DVD, etc. They stated that it is an all-in project, meaning the shoot is guaranteed to happen and fans are guaranteed to get their return goods for donating whether or not they reach the goal. This project is running from Aug 14th-28th.
Now that I got the information for the CF project out of the way, this could be good news for those who are hoping for S2 because the project reached the 2M goal within 2 minutes after the donation was made available. Currently, it is sitting at 4M yen (~$37.8k) from a total of 468 patrons so far. While Trifle Entertainment isn't responsible for the anime production, the feat is still a clear proof that YagaKimi fans are passionate and willing to fund what they love (& yes, Japanese fans are all expecting S2). On top of that, YagaKimi is getting quite a bit of merchs and from what I've seen so far, they all have done very well. I'd say expect S2 announcement eventually and even if you don't care for the anime, I think this is just good news for the YagaKimi franchise as a whole.
last edited at Aug 14, 2019 2:36PM
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